As you are reading this, Laura and I are ensconced enrobed (?) in boxes and nestled into the fine interior of my beloved 10-year-old MINI Cooper on our way to the Chicago Pen Show. Ms. Jesi Coles will be joining us via United Airlines on Thursday. You will find Laura behind the Vanness Pen Shop table this weekend and you will find me manning The Well-Appointed Desk table. Or maybe the other way around? Since the tables are side-by-side, we might flip flop as needed. Either way. Maybe we will all be at Jesi’s Vintage Pen Shop table?
While there is no after party or event planned this year, The Well-Appointed Desk is well represented this year and will be available for Ask The Desk questions at all three tables and at the bar every evening. Please say hello!
This week’s links seems feature a fair share of other travel like Azizah’s trip to Laywines and Pencilcase Blog’s trip to Sakura Pen Gallery. HeyMatthew raps about the Atlanta Pen Show too. The pencil section is more about sharpening this week and we’ve got more for writing than art-making in terms of creativity down in the “other interesting things” section. Hope to see you’all soon!
Pens:
- Matthew Martin Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Refilling my tombow fudenosuke brush pen (via Apple-Pine)
- Montegrappa Fortuna Rainbow fountain pen review (via United Inkdom)
- Comparative Overview: Sailor Pro Gear vs. Pro Gear Realo (via Scrively)
- Pilot’s Small Inset Nibs (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
- At last: reviewing the Desiderata Soubriquet (via UK fountain pens)
- My pen “capsule wardrobe” (cheating at a top ten of fountain pens) (via UK fountain pens)
Ink:
- Favorite Workhorse Fountain Pen Inks, as Determined by Actual Use (via The Gentleman Stationer)
- Pen BBS No 178 Rose Quartz (via Alt. Haven)
- Diamine Pink Glitz & Enchanted Ocean fountain pen ink (via Parka Blogs)
- Platinum Pigment Brun Sepia Ink Review (via The Pen Addict)
- Herbin Vert de Gris (via Ink Sharks)
- Sailor Jentle Irori (via Mountain of Ink)
Pencils:
- Zebra Airfit Mechanical Pencil (via Gourmet Pens)
- An Even Better Mobius + Ruppert Sharpener (Fueled by Clouds & Coffee)
- KUM Masterpiece vs Classroom friendly (via The Ink Smudge)
Notebooks & Paper:
- Baron Fig Clear Habit Journal (via The Finer Point)
Art & Creativity:
- ‘Modern Cartooning’ by Christopher Hart (via Tools and Toys)
- Creative Types by Adobe Create (via Adobe)
Other Interesting Things:
- The Pen Show Experience (via heymatthew.com)
- 6 tips to help you write more and better (via Flow Magazine)
- Writing to know yourself better: proprioceptive writing (via Flow Magazine)
- Daily Journaling Prompts for May 2019 (via Quo Vadis Blog)
- Store Visit: Sakura Fountain Pen Gallery (via The Pencilcase Blog)
- AJOTO Event at Laywine’s in Toronto (via Gourmet Pens)
- How To Purchase Fountain Pens On Rakuten Global Market (via Fountain Pen Love)
